Top 100 Leigh Bardugo Quotes
#1. I winced. "I shouldn't have said that." "You once put goose droppings in my shoes, Alina. A bad mood I can handle." He glanced at me and said, "We all know the burden you're carrying. You don't have to bear it alone." I
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#2. Because I am a doll, and a servant. Because I am a pretty thing and a soldier all the same.
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#3. Inej was always trying to wring little bits of decency from him.
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#4. I will have you without armor. Those were the words she'd said to Kaz aboard the Ferolind, desperate for some sign that he might open himself to her, that they could be more than two wary creatures united by their distrust of the world.
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#5. No one got the better of Kaz. He was the toughest, scariest thing walking the alleys of the Barrel.
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#6. I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.
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#7. They'd even made him imitate the different patterns of the bells. A necessity, but he'd felt like a fool chanting, Bing bong bing bing bong. No, wait, bing bing bong bing bing.
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#10. The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him forever.
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#11. Zoya yelped. "That little brat just kicked me."
"Smart kid," said Mal.
I lifted a brow. "Smarter than some."
He had the good grace to blush.
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#12. I wanted to say something comforting, something reassuring. But there were so many mistakes in my own past that I couldn't think of anything that wouldn't ring false.
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#13. Have you looked in a mirror lately?"
"I think you do that enough for the both of us.
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#14. Kaz flexed his fingers in his gloves. How did you survive the Barrel? When they took everything from you, you found a way to make something from nothing.
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#15. It's good to feel foolish sometimes, Fjerdan."
"You only say that because you have no shame.
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#16. I'm used to being the center of attention wherever I go. I've been told I could charm the shoes off a racehorse midstride, and yet you seem impervious.
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#17. I will strip away all that you know, all that you love, until you have no shelter but mine.
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#18. He picked her up and spun her in the air.
"You're going to strain something if you keep doing that," she said with another radiant smile.
"You're light as a feather."
"I do not want to see that bird. Now let's go get me a stack of waffles twice as tall as you.
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#19. She's worth it. And one day maybe she'll let me chase her into a chapel.
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#20. The stag had been showing me my strength-not just the price of mercy but the power it bestowed. And mercy was something the Darkling would never understand.
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#21. If I want to watch men dig holes to fall into, I'll find myself a cemetery.
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#22. Mal snickered.
"What's so funny?"
"I just pictured the Darkling being cornered by a sweaty duchess trying to have her way with him.
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#24. I didn't have to stand here in the darkling arms. I could vanish from his grip, slide back into consciousness and the safety of a stone room hidden in the mountaintop. But I didn't want to go. Despite, everything, I wanted this whispered confidence .
"Yes." I breathed.
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#25. The first time I'd entered the Fold, I'd feared the darkness and my own death. Now, darkness was nothing to me, and I knew that soon death would seem like a gift. I'd always known I would have to return to the Unsea, but as I looked back, I realized that some part of me had anticipated it.
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#26. I seem to be immune," I replied. "And luckily, I know what a real kiss should feel like."
I left him standing in the middle of the square. I could get used to making Mal blush.
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#27. Wylan didn't think he imagined the tension in the rasp of Kaz's voice. Kaz never yelled the way Wylan's father did, but Wylan had learned to listen for that low note, that bit of black harmony that crept into Kaz's tone when things were about to get dangerous.
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#28. Morozova's stag. Rusalye. The firebird. Legends come to life before my eyes, just to die in front of me.
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#29. He'd known even then, though: He'd start as a grunt, but the Dregs would become his army.
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#30. But I pushed down my confused tears and did as she asked, still hoping that whatever I'd broken might be repaired.
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#31. What is wrong with you?" I whispered furiously.
"Nothing," he said, surprised. "I feel great."
"But how can you be so ... so jaunty?"
"Jaunty? I've never been jaunty. I hope never to be jaunty.
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#32. Matthias handed over the bag. "What are you looking for?"
"A sedative," said the medik.
"Is that safe for a pregnant woman?"
"For me.
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#33. It was like standing at the end of everything.
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#34. She was Inej Ghafa, and she would not quiver like a rabbit in a snare.
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#35. It was fatiguing, but nothing was sacred to the Kerch except trade, so she'd gone out of her way to make the risk much higher than the reward when it came to disrespecting her.
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#36. He dipped his hand in, then yelped and drew back. "They bite."
"Serves you right," I said. "'Oh, look, a dark lake full of something shiny. Let me put my hand in it.
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#37. Maybe your tutors didn't cover this lesson, but you do not argue with a man covered in blood and a knife up his sleeve.
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#38. And there's no way I'm leaving you alone with Prince Perfect."
"So you don't trust me to resist his charms?"
"I don't even trust myself. I've never seen anyone work a crowd the way he does. I'm pretty sure the rocks and trees are getting ready to swear fealty to him.
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#39. I know what you thought, what you always thought of me.
It's so much easier that way, isn't it?
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#40. It seems to work better than jabbing them with a stick," he said.
"Less fun."
"My jabbing arm is tired.
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#41. Usually people don't start hating each other until a week into the job, but you two have a head start.
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#42. Never underestimate the public's desire to get something for nothing.
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#43. We don't look anything alike." "You're both tall," Inej offered. "And neither of us have gills," said Nina. "That doesn't mean we look related.
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#44. I'm pragmatic. If I were cruel, I'd give him an eulogy instead of a conversation.
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#45. Just waiting, hoping that you'd miss me enough to tell them all to go to hell.
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#46. Jesper Llewellyn Fahey, that is enough!" Colm roared. (...)
Inej cocked her head to one side. "Jesper Llewellyn Fahey?"
"Shut up," said Jesper. "It's a family name."
Inej made a solemn bow. "Whatever you say, Llewellyn.
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#47. Weakness is a guise. Wear it when they need to know you're human, but never when you feel it.
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#48. You don't ask for forgiveness, Kaz. You earn it.
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#49. Nina glanced from Inej to Kaz and saw they both wore the same expression. Nina knew that look. It came after the shipwreck, when the tide moved against you and the sky had gone dark. It was the first sight of land, the hope of shelter and even salvation that might await you on a distant shore.
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#50. You are on your knees. . . .we are not negotiating.
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#51. There are no good men in Ketterdam, Kaz said. And then he'd simply let go.
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#52. No matter what street law decreed, this night smelled like violence. Go on, give those guns
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#55. What do you want then?
The old answers came easily to mind. Money. Vengeance. Jordie's voice in my head silenced forever. But a different reply roared to life inside him, loud, insistent, and unwelcome. You, Inej. You.
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#56. Nina was about to snap that she didn't appreciate the sarcasm when she saw the expression on his face. He looked like someone had just given him a tuba full of puppies.
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#57. You can just pull the covers over your head and pretend this isn't happening!
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#58. His knuckles brushed against her skin and lightning cracked through him, left him paralyzed, rooted to the earth. His heart should not be making that sound.
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#60. I'm the kind of bastard they only manufacture in the barrel.
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#61. I try to make a habit of getting things hopelessly wrong.
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#63. We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren't chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyhow.
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#64. She smiled then, a small smile of such aching sadness that it was hard to look at. "You think I don't love my son," she said. "But I do." "It is because I love him that I will not let him put himself beyond redemption.
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#65. If it were a trick, I'd promise you safety. I'd offer you happiness. I don't know if that exists in the Barrel, but you'll find none of it with me.
For some reason, those words had comforted her. Better terrible truths than kind lies.
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#66. Greed may do your bidding, but death serves no man.
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#67. Who'd deny a poor criple his cane?
If the cripple is you, then any man with sense.
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#68. And the look they exchanged could have melted miles of northern ice.
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#69. I'm the Sun Summoner. It gets dark when I say it does.
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#70. I hope you weren't looking to me to be the voice of reason. I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret.
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#71. Go on, Van Eck, threaten me. Tell me all the little things I am. You lay a finger on me and Kaz Brekker will cut the baby from your pretty wife's stomach and hang its body from a balcony at the Exchange.
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#73. I roll my eyes. Well, if I plan on doing anything exciting I promise to give fair warning so just ... take a nap or something.
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#74. Promise not to kick me again, and I'll promise not to kiss you again," he said.
"I only kicked you because you kissed me!
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#75. I'd learned to avoid mirrors. They never seemed to show me what I wanted to see.
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#76. Pull your shirt up over your mouth," he told Wylan.
"What?"
"Stop being dense. You're cuter when you're smart."
Wylan's cheeks went pink. He scowled and pulled his collar up.
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#77. I shivered in my kefta, comforted by the soft brush of the fox fur.
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#78. I need someone who can be invisible, who can become a ghost. Do you think you can do that?"
I'm already a ghost, she thought. I died in the hold of a slaver ship.
"i think so.
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#79. Just this minute, I'll settle for an apology, she decided. And I wont' board the boat without one. Even if Kaz isn't sorry, he can pretend. He at least owes me his best imitation of a human being.
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#80. Pekka Rollins couldn't count the threats he'd heard, the men he'd killed, or the men he'd seen die, but the look in Brekker's eye still sent a chill slithering up his spine. Some wrathful thing in this boy was beginning to get loose, and Rollin's didn't want to be around when it slipped its leash.
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#81. Rich men want to believe they deserve every penny they've got, so they forget what they owe to chance.
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#82. If it works, it will be plenty dramatic. And I suppose that if it doesn't work, it will be even more dramatic, what with the blast."
"David, I think you just made a joke."
He frowned, utterly perplexed. "Did I?
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#83. None of us moves on without a backward look. We move on always carrying with us those we have lost.
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#84. I'm already harboring fugitives. If I'm going to aid,I may as well abet.
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#85. Jesper knocked his head against the hull and cast his eyes heavenward. 'Fine. But if Pekka Rollins kills us all, I'm going to get Wylan's ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost.
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#86. I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good."--Leigh Bardugo
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#87. Please, my darling Inej, treasure of my heart, won't you do me the honor of acquiring me a new hat?
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#88. And you," she spat in Nikolai's direction. "Go somewhere you're wanted."
"That's hardly limiting," he said.
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#90. Nina giggled. "You are in so much trouble."
Jesper scowled. "Matthias, Nina let Cornelis Smeet grope her bottom."
Nina stopped laughing. "I am going to turn your teeth inside out."
"That is physically impossible."
"I just raised the dead. Do you really want to argue with me?
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#91. I'd prefer a pair of sable-lined swimming trunks. But we can't always get what we want.
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#92. The trap is loneliness, and none of us escapes it.
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#93. Not bad looking? He's damnably handsome. Brave in battle, smart as a whip. An excellent dancer, oh, and an even better shot.
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#94. Then the memory of the Darkling's kiss blew through me and rattled my concentration, scattering my thoughts like leaves and making my heart swoop and dive like a bird borne aloft by uncertain currents.
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#95. Nina rested her chin atop Inej's silky hair. "Zoya used to say that fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return." (p188)
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#96. I will return more powerful than before. You are my eyes. You are my fists. You are my swords.
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#97. We are not witches. We are practitioners of the Small Science. We keep this country and this kingdom safe.
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#98. Go home to Ravka, Nina. Be free, as you were meant to be. Be a warrior, as you always have been. Just save some mercy for my people. There has to be a Fjerda worth saving. Promise me
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#99. Genya would have to keep her face hidden, but she didn't seem to mind. She'd wrapped her shawl around her head and declared, 'I shall be a woman of mystery.' I reminded her not to be too intriguing.
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#100. The sun was out for once, and Inej had turned her face to it. Her eyes were shut, her oil-black lashes fanned over her cheeks. The harbor wind had lifted her dark hair, and for a moment Kaz was a boy again, sure that there was magic in this world.
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